[Users] Need help, moving from kmail-1.13.5 to claws-mail

[Michael A. Yetto]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 22:05:35 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

>Thinking that since both kmail-1.13.5 and claws-mail keep their
>email corpus in $HOME/user/Mail, I spent a fews hour copying
>the kmail email corpus over to $HOME/gene/Mail on a new drive,
>quite some time back, so its out of date now.
>
>But I had to reboot to Ubu-12.04.4 LTS this evening so I
>thought  I'd try one more time.  Claws-mail does see the
>directory structure, but nothing else in that structure.  So I
>blew it away since it was stale anyway.
>
>When booted to the 12.04.4 LTS install, its no problem to mount
>the drive I'm running from right now at someplace handy like
>media/ubu10.4.4 and restart the copy process.
>

Check out the "Mailbox conversion" section of the page at 
<http://claws-mail.org/tools.php?section=downloads>. There is a
kmail-mailbox2claws-mail.pl script that should be helpful. I
remember having to tweek it a little a few years ago, but I don't
remember why or how.

-- 
Mike Yetto
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